Giuseppe-Giaimo

[g.giaimo]

Hi, 

I’m Giuseppe Giaimo and  I’m from Catanzaro.

I did  a bachelor degree in Management Engineering  from University of Calabria (so linear algebra was the only algebra course). 

I had a job experience as a software developer in an insurance company until September of 2016 when I start my master degree in Mathematics at University of Milano-Bicocca.

During this first year I attended  the algebra courses of (by now well-known) professors Di Martino and Weigel.

I’m very glad to stay here in Perugia where enjoyable and instructive seem have the same meaning…

Regards

Giuseppe

[Vavilov Nikolai]

 

 

28.07.2017, 20:31, "g.giaimo" <g.gi...@campus.unimib.it>:

Caro Giuseppe, grazie! I assume it was the same course on representation theory, so that you had

to recuperate all necessary group theory, and some ring theory?

Yes, in my view SMI was a HUGE success over years. When I joined its activity, under the previous

director, Leo De Michele --- actually also from Milano-Bicocca, but maybe before your time there ----

the school already operated for almost 40 years. And at a much larger scale, each year there were 5

week courses of algebra, algebraic geometry(!), functional analysis, differential geometry, complex

analysis, real analysis, what not! --- up to 10--11--12 courses, not like 5--6 in the last years. Also,

there were more than 200 students. And other very nice things. Like the school at the end donated

at least one of the textbooks for each of the courses a student was taking, and one could buy other

books at strongly discounted prices. The school paid for the dinner of each class with the professor,

during the first or second week. There was cultural program, like free visits to the Umbria National

Gallery, Collegio del Cambio, etc., etc. And more!!!

Much harder times now, but both the people here in Perugia, and the people in Milan, starting

with the current director Sandro Salsa, are investing AWESOME efforts to keep the school running.

I know many such similar mathematical Summer Schools in Russia, in Germany, in France, but

they are all different format, different atmosphere, usually shorter, like 2 weeks, just lectures, etc.

In this sense SMI is already unique, and combination with the Perugia/Umbria themselves, and what

you can reach from here on weekends, makes it even more unique.

 

N.V.

[Vavilov Nikolai]

 

 

28.07.2017, 20:31, "g.giaimo" <g.gi...@campus.unimib.it>:

Continuing my previous letter, here what Summer Schools USUALLY are. That's the

main page, and the schedule of the

 

First Summer Mathematical School on the Fontanka: Geometry 2017

 

https://ms.hse.ru/en/summerschool

 

Misha Verbitsky (НИУ ВШЭ), Geometry of K_3-surfaces and Torelli theorem

Alexander Kuznetsov (МИАН), Fano varieties

Sergei Ivanov (ПОМИ), Geometry of Alexandrov spaces

Laurent Manivel (CNRS, France), The projective geometry of rational homogeneous spaces.

Dmitry Orlov (МИАН), From commutative to non-commutative geometry: coherent sheafs

and derived categories

 

Lectures of the school will be held in the Marble Hall of PDMI.

 

03.07 MONDAY

10h00–11h30 Verbitsky 1

12h00–13h30 Verbitsky 2

13h30–15h30 Lunch

15h30–17h00 Manivel 1

17h30–19h00 Orlov 1

20h00--22h00 Seminar “Algebraic groups”

 

04.07 TUESDAY

10h00–11h30 Kuznetsov 1

12h00–13h30 Ivanov 1

13h30–15h30 Lunch

15h30–17h00 Verbitsky 3

17h30–19h00 Manivel 2

20h00 Seminar “Automorphic forms and applications”

 

05.07 WEDNESDAY

10h00–11h30 Ivanov 2

12h00–13h30 Verbitsky 4

13h30–15h30 Lunch

15h30–17h00 Orlov 2

17h30–19h00 Kuznetsov 2

19h30–22h00 Boat trip

 

06.07 THURSDAY

15h30–17h00 Kuznetzov 3

17h30–19h00 Manivel 3

20h00-22h00 Seminar “Geometric structures”

 

07.07 FRIDAY

10h00–11h30 Verbitsky 5

12h00–13h30 Ivanov 3

13h30–15h30 Lunch

15h30–17h00 Orlov 3

17h30–19h00 Kuznetsov 4

20h00–22h00 Seminar “Topology and group theory”

 

08.07 SATURDAY

10h00–11h30 Ivanov 4

12h00–13h30 Verbitsky 6

 

Of course, this is an example of another extreme (like the schools in Dubna, Novosibirsk,

or Yaroslavl are somewhere in between).

    Look, that's just ONE week, 6 hour lectures a day, introductory lectures on rather

advanced subjects, by 5 top guys, apart from the course by Sergei Ivanov all

concentrated on algebraic geometry.

I was not attending the lectures myself, apart from the lectures by Manivel and Orlov

on Monday, but my impression was that they were simply FAR too fast and FAR too advanced

to be fully digested by the students --- but ask Egor, Pasha, and Dania, who attended

the School. The idea was different, not to seriously study and master something, which you

cannot do within one week anyway, but to get the first glimpse at what people are doing today.

This is also VERY useful, but completely different.

And in the evening there were 2 hour seminars (I was running the one on Monday, on

algebraic groups), which were even more advanced and sketchy, really not like lectures,

rather like conference talks.

It's like Cortona school, only that 3 times more stuff within twice shorter time.

 

N.V.